Thomas Chester (bishop)

Thomas Chester was an Irish Anglican bishop in the penultimate decade of the sixteenth century (1580s).[1]The son of William Chester[2] Lord Mayor of London,[3] he was Bishop of Elphin[4] from 1580 until 1583.[5]His elder brother was the first Chester baronet.[6]

References
  1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. "Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley" Waters, R.E.C. p10:London; Robson & sons; 1878
  3. J.D. Alsop, 'Chester, Sir William (c.1509–1595?), mayor of London', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. That supersedes the article by C. Welch in the Old D.N.B., which contains some inaccuracies.
  4. Cotton, Henry (1850). The Province of Connaught. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Volume 4. Dublin: Hodges and Smith.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  5. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. A New History of Ireland. Volume IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  6. George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Roland de Burgo		 Bishop of Elphin
1580–1583		 Succeeded by
John Lynch


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